| Lima: Breaking the Silence | Menahem Golan | Amerika Serikat |
| Herod's Law | Luis Estrada | Meksiko |
| Sophie's World | Erik Gustavson | Norwegia, Swedia |
| Jakob the Liar | Peter Kassovitz, Marek Brodzki | Prancis, Hungaria, Amerika Serikat, Polandia |
| Sheida | Kamal Tabrizi | Iran |
| Fight Club | David Fincher | Jerman, Amerika Serikat |
| The Honour of the House | Guðný Halldórsdóttir | Islandia, Swedia, Denmark |
| Sonnenallee | Leander Haußmann | Jerman |
| American Beauty | Sam Mendes | Amerika Serikat |
| The Hurricane | Norman Jewison | Amerika Serikat |
| Eyes Wide Shut | Stanley Kubrick | Britania Raya, Amerika Serikat |
| Mansfield Park | Patricia Rozema | Britania Raya |
| Devil In The Flesh | Antonio Adamo | Swedia |
| The Way We Laughed | Gianni Amelio | Italia |
| Mighty Joe Young | Ron Underwood | Amerika Serikat |
| Legionnaire | Peter MacDonald | Amerika Serikat |
| A Civil Action | Steven Zaillian | Amerika Serikat |
| The Theory of Flight | Paul Greengrass | Britania Raya |
| Beloved | Jonathan Demme | Amerika Serikat |
| Mother | Denis Yevstigneyev | Rusia |
| The Thief | Pavel Chukhraj | Rusia |
| It Is Easy to Die | Aleksandr Khvan | Rusia |
| The Other Sister | Garry Marshall | Amerika Serikat |
| The Idiot Returns | Saša Gedeon | Jerman, Ceko |
| Marigolds in Flower | Sergey Snezhkin | Rusia |
| Dark Angels | Sašo Podgoršek | Slovenia |
| Enthusiasm | Ricardo Larraín | Prancis, Spanyol, Chili |
| The Prince of Egypt | Simon Wells, Steve Hickner, Brenda Chapman | Amerika Serikat |
| 54 (film) | Mark Christopher | Amerika Serikat |
| Ronin (film) | John Frankenheimer | Prancis, Britania Raya, Amerika Serikat |
| Velvet Goldmine | Todd Haynes | Britania Raya, Amerika Serikat |
| What Dreams May Come | Vincent Ward | Amerika Serikat, Selandia Baru |
| Bent | Sean Mathias | Britania Raya, Jepang |
| Gods and Monsters | Bill Condon | Britania Raya, Amerika Serikat |
| Apt Pupil | Bryan Singer | Prancis, Amerika Serikat |
| Barrio | Fernando León de Aranoa | Spanyol |
| Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon | John Maybury | Prancis, Britania Raya |
| El evangelio de las maravillas | Arturo Ripstein | Meksiko |
| One True Thing | Carl Franklin | Amerika Serikat |
| Only Clouds Move the Stars | Torun Lian | Norwegia |
| Rushmore | Wes Anderson | Amerika Serikat |
| Un embrujo | Carlos Carrera | Meksiko |
| 2 Seconds | Manon Briand | Kanada |
| Twilight | Robert Benton | Amerika Serikat |
| Cabaret Balkan | Goran Paskaljević | Prancis, Republik Federal Yugoslavia |
| Angel Express | Rolf Peter Kahl | Jerman |
| Entre todas las mujeres | Juan Marino Ortuoste Blanco | Spanyol |
| The Truman Show | Peter Weir | Amerika Serikat |